Assemble wins 2015 Turner Prize for Liverpool housing regeneration project
London collective Assemble has become the first architecture or design studio to receive the prestigious Turner Prize for art (+ slideshow).
Assemble, a team of 18 young architects and designers, won the UK's most important art award for its work on the Granby Four Streets project in Liverpool.
The project is a collaboration with the residents of a rundown council housing estate to clean up the neighbourhood, paint empty houses and establish a local market.
![Assemble constructing Yardhouse](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/05/Yardhouse-by-Assemble_dezeen_2.jpg)
The architects beat a trio of females artists – Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers – for the £25,000 prize, which is awarded annually by Tate gallery to a British artist or group under the age of 50.
As well as being the first "non-artists" to receive the Turner Prize, this is first time a "collective" has won in its 31-year history.
The announcement was made today at a ceremony at the Tramway arts venue in Glasgow, which is hosting an exhibition of the shortlisted projects until 17 January 2016.
![Assemble's Granby Workshop social enterprise in Liverpool will sell locally produced homeware](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/12/Granby-Workshop-Liverpool_Assemble_dezeen_sq_1.jpg)
Granby Four Streets involves the renovation of 10 houses and a series of empty shops, planting and creating social outdoor spaces, and offering building jobs and training to local people.
Also as part of the project, Assemble created a workshop selling homeware made in collaboration with local artists and craftspeople.
Assemble was founded in 2010, when the team built a temporary cinema in an abandoned petrol station in London's Clerkenwell. The recent graduates cemented their reputation a year later with another temporary screening space, this time beside a canal under a motorway flyover.
They are currently working on a new gallery for London art college Goldsmiths in a converted bathhouse.